Clarion 1943-11-04 Vol 23 No 03

Major
Bergstrom
of '19
Honorable is the name of Bethel
Our own Christ-centered school.
Many have stepped from its noble portals,
Each one to be used as God's tool.
Can we but strive on to the goal set before us,
Our lives here shall not be in vain.
May we seek to serve humbly our Saviour and Master,
In nothing our own praise to gain.
Never doubting, but faithful, our motto hold fast,
God first, others second, self last.
THE BETHEL
CLARION
Vol. XXIII — No. 3 November 4, 1943
//Hearths Aglowu Is Theme of Banquet
Preview Bergfalk Becomes Army Chaplain to Speak
of 'Duluth
Conference
On Friday evening, October 22,
the opening service of the 36th An-nual
Convention of the Minnesota'
Swedish Baptist Y.P.U. was held
in the Bethel Baptist Church of
Duluth, hostess of the convention.
"Alert for Christ" was the motto,
taken from I Peter 3:15.
Rev. Wilbur Sorley, of Minne-apolis,
gave the opening address,
"Alert with the Word". Don Olson,
president of the State Y.P. presided
over the meeting.
The Saturday program began
with morning devotions at 9:30
led by Bill Adam. At ten o'clock
Don Olson took over, and a busi-ness
meeting was held. Because
of the abundance of money in the
treasury, Rev. Marvin Samuelson,
now pastor of the Bethel church
and former executive secretary for
the state convention, presented a
need at Jesse Lake, Minn., which
he asked the Young People to un-dertake.
It was agreed to send
$600„a year to help support a man
in this field. The business meet-ing
was closed with a prayer ses-sion
for the next year's work.
The banquet on Saturday even-ing
was held in the Medical Arts
Building banquet hall. TA crowd
was beyond expectations, 450 at-tending.
The fifteen Bethel men
who were supported by the Young
People this summer while out prea-ching
and teaching Bible schools
were the speakers for the evening.
These included: Dale ,Bjork, Lloyd
Nordstrom, Melvin Swanson, Elv-ing
Anderson, Howard Olson, Her-bert
McDonald, Wesley Lindblom,
Robert Paulson, Dana Larson, and
Robert Bergerud. Unable to attend
and speak were: John Bergeson,
Lawrence Nydeggar, Don Johnson,
Cecil Lindblom, and Irwin Bjel-land.
Music and a movie of this
year's summer assembly at Lake
Geneva finished the program.
Sunday School was in charge of
the local church. Morning worship
included Rev. Vern Wessman, of
Blomkest, speaking on the subject,
"Alert to the Leading of Word."
After the service all were invited
to homes of the members of the
Bethel church and other local chur-ches.
At 2:15 P. M. the Rally Service
Mission Secretary
At the Minnesota Baptist Con-ference
in the First Swedish Bap-tist
Church of Minneapolis, held
September, 7-12, Rev. Albert Berg-falk
was elected to take over the
work as general executive mission
secretary for the conference. This
position in the conference has been
held during the last few years Ty
Rev. Marvin Samuelson who is now
the pastor of the Bethel Church in
Duluth.
Rev. Bergfalk's work will be to
supervise the work in all of the
churches of the Minnesota Baptist
Conference, but especially those
churches that are receiving some
form of help from the conference.
It is expected that he will take
over this work about December 1,
when he returns from the Pacific
coast where he has been working
for the Mission Committee of the
General Conference. He has been
trying to coordinate the Gospel
work in army, navy, marine, and
ordinance camps.
In 1927, Albert Bergfalk came to
Bethel from the East Rock Creek
Church, here in Minnesota. He
graduated from the Seminary in
1932. Since 1931, or for about
twelve years, he has been pastor
of the Opstead, Minnesota, Church.
New Coach
Is Luther Gronseth
"It" has finally come. The "It"
in this case is Bethel's new coach.
Many have been wondering who,
what, and when about him, but
now the mystery is solved.
Luther Gronseth, Augsburg Col-lege,
'42, is the Bethel coach for
1943-44. Last year he coached at
Minnehaha Academy. Also a min-isterial
student, he is a middle-man
at the Augsburg Seminary.
Gym classes under his supervi-sion
started Monday, Nov. 1.
began. Bill Adam, former Bethel
coach, led the service. Rev. Mar-vin
Samuelson took charge of the
installation of the officers for 1944,
which included three Bethel stu-dents:
Dale Bjork, second vice
president; Violet Carlson and Jack
Bergeson, members of the mission-ary
committee. Rev. Edward Nel-son
of St. Paul closed the meeting
and the Conference with the mes-sage,
"Alert to the Hope".
With smiling "faithes," open "armths" and "hearths" aglow we ex-tend
the warmest welcome to visiting alumni and friends to another
homeoming. Though the student body is smaller, our hearts will have
a larger place for you this year. The theme is planned to emphasize the
spirit of the Bethel campus. Enjoy the program, reunion, and fellowship
with–the students, and all will be well satisfied.
Robert Dischinger,
President of the Student Council
The 1943 annual Homecoming celebrations will begin with a camp
fire outing, Thursday evening, 7:30 at Como Park. Friday aftternoon,
open house will be held in the Men's and Women's Dormitories on the
campus. Sports activities, including a milking contest, greased pig con-ttest,
and girls' tug of war are scheduled for Friday at 3 p. m.
Friday, at 6:30, is the time for
the climax of the activities, the
Homecoming banquet. Main speak-er
of the program will be Major
Carl Bergstrom, chaplain in the U.
S. Army, now stationed at Fort
Knox, Tennessee. Major Bergstrom
was graduated from Bethel Sem-inary
in 1919, and at the time he
was called into the army was
minister at the Swedish Baptist
Church of Houston, Minnesota.
Bethel Holds
Music Missionary
Invocation Dr. K. J. Karlson
Choruses Dave Danielson Emphasis Week
Male Quartette
Marimba Solo Priscilla Grebe
Vocal solo .... Mr. Nels Stjernstrom
Male Quartette
Male Chorus
Marimba solo Priscilla Grebe
"Hearths Aglow"
Major C. J. Bergstrom
Benediction Mr. C. E. Carlson
As in the past, arrangements for
the banquet have been in charge
of the Student Council, with Robert
Dischinger /as president. Commit-tee
chairmen are: general commit-tee,
Dale Bjork; decorations, Hazel
Nelson; souvenirs, Janet Rye; ban-quet,
Harold McClure: publicity,
Robert Bergerud; tickets, Richard
Sleiter.
Following the banquet will be a
basket ball game between the Var-sity
and Alumni.
CALENDAR
Nov. 9 Convocation
"Meat and Romance"
Nov. 11 B. W. A.
Nov. 14 • Bethel Day at
Bethel Church
The banquet program is as fol-lows:
Missionary Emphasis Week came
to a close today. The past week,
November first to fifth, has been
set aside as a week when Bethel
would especially remember those
who have given their life to full-time
service on the foreign field.
Monday was dedicated to prayer
for the missionaries who are still
laboring on the foreign field, even
though the war has separated them
even farther from their friends,
and they themselves may be in
danger.
Chapel speaker on Tuesday was
Miss Rhoda Lundstrom from the
Bethel Neighborhood Center, Kan-sas
City, Kansas. Special music
was provided by the male quartet.
Gustav Sword, returned mission-ary
from Burma, was the speaker
on Wednesday, with music furnish-ed
by the chapel choir.
Thursday's speaker was Mrs.
John Selander from Assam. The
girls' tiro provided the music.
About the blessings of Mission-ary
week, one student has said,
"Altogether, this week has been
very successful in bringing td mind
the many individuals who have giv-en
up the securities that we know,
to proclaim the Gospel of Christ.
OUQ INC UIQING
PEPO2T020
by Ruth Elaine Anderson
Question: WOULD YOU LIKE
TO BE AN ALUMNUS AND
WHY?
Shirley Anderson: "Oh never!"
Leroy Gardner: "No, I wouldn't
but I'm afraid I'll be one without
choice."
Weston Sequist: "It would be
kind of fun to gloat over the under-graduates."
Betty Nyman: "I'd be all thru
with classes, but it would be nice
to be honored at a banquet, instead
of serving."
Earl Trude: "I'd like to be one
because—because."
Peggy Applequist: "I won't
quote myself."
Grace Bylund: "If I were an
alumnus—I'd be able to do more
for Christ."
Lorene Jansson: "Oh sure! I'd
like to be an alumnus, I wouldn't
have to wait four years then."
Irene Benson: "Then I know I'd
have passed chemistry."
Kay Shimatsu: "To me being a
student means more than coming
back as an alumnus to the ban-quet."
Phyllis Anderson: "If I were an
alumnus all my worries would be
over."
Lucille Collins: "Yes, I'd like to
be an alumnus and all done so
that I would know what I was go-ing
to do."
Bob Bergerud: "Yoh, I guess I
would. I'd like to have a church—
I can't do a decent job going to
school at the same time.
Ruth Rask: "Don't ask me."
Lloyd Nordstrom: "Yes, I'd like
an alufilmus because I'll then have
completed my work in a great
school of Bethel."
Wilbur Ericson: "No, no chance
for fooling around."
Howie Olson: "No, no chance to
get a friend."
Miriam Nelson: "Sure, because
I'd feel I had completed a worth-while
cause here at school and
would be better not only for Christ
but dependent upon myself."
President Wingblade: "The
greatest honor that can come to
anyone is to be an alumnus of Be-thel.
But it is a heritage to live
up to. Bethel is a small school but
a great school—you know."
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4. To establish a better understanding among the students.
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Feature Editor Janet Rye
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Reporters Gloria Anderson, Ruth Elaine Anderson,
Dorothy Benson, Irene Benson, Harold Carlson,
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The Editor Says .. .
The Pride of Our Alma Mater
"Hearths Aglow"—there is no phrase more descriptive of our feel-ings
at this Homecoming time. Our "Hearths" are "Aglow" with welcome
and joy for those that can be with us; our "Hearts" are "Aglow" in
remembrance of those who are unable to attend.
One has only to turn over the pages of our alumni records and read
the many names and achievements written there to catch this glowing
spirit of Homecoming. And it is well, I believe, to do so, to renew our
acquaintance with those honored names, for in knowing their lives we
may learn many lessons.
As missionaries, pastors, writers, and not only in definite Christian
work, but in the more secular fields of service of doctors, and teachers,
we find them, each serving the Lord and contributing to the establishing
of His Kingdom in a different way. Let us explore their fields of en-deavor.
In missionary work we might mention Dr. Ola Hanson, Seminary
graduate of '87, missionary to Burma, receiving the Kaisar-em-Hind Med-al
from the Emporer of India in 1920; Gustaf Sword of '14, who until
recently was stationed in Kutkai, managing the Kachin Bible Schools;
Bengt I. Anderson, '24, who was in full responsibility for evangelistic,
educational, and medical work in the North Assam section; Carl Eric
Fryckenberg, '29, in station evangelistic work at Atmakur, Nalgonda, and
Vinukonda, India.
Among the alumni serving as pastors are: Linus Johnson, graduate
of '20, pastor at Temple Baptist Church, Portland Oregon; David Gustaf-son,
'11, who at one time taught at the Seminary of the University of
Chicago, later was a professor at the Carnegie Institute of Technology,
and is now serving as pastor of the Marion Baptist Church of Aurora,
Illinois. Those ministers of the Twin Cities which Bethel claims as her
own are: Anton Sjolund, '18, of the First Swedish Baptist church of
Minneapolis; Martin Erikson, '29, Payne Avenue Baptist Church; Eric
Anderson, '12, Central Baptist Church; J. G. Johnson, '19, Elim Baptist
Church; Vaclav Votja, '40, Slovak Baptist Church of Minneapolis; Hugo
Bersell, '24, Prospect Park Baptist Church; Wilbur Sorely, '39, Minnehaha
Baptist Church.
In the field of Christian Workers and writers are found the follow-ing:
the oldest living graduate of Bethel Academy, Rev. L. J. Ahlstrom
of '79, writer and historian of Swedish Baptist history; Jonas Oscar
Backlund, '02, at one time professor at Bethel Academy, now editor of
the Standard; Ragnar Andreas Arlander, Mission Secretary of the Swe-dish
Baptist General Conference; Gustave Arvid Hagstrom, '92, president
Emeritis of Bethel Institute; Johan Eric Klingberg, '98, founder of the
Children's Home in New Britain, Conn.
Bethel men who have entered the field of medicine are: Dr. Jonas
Ahlquist, '11, missionary doctor in Burma; Dr. Earl Carlson, '15, of the
Nerological Institute of New York and author of a book on spastic
paralysis.
Some of those who are in the teaching profession include: Joel A.
Burkman, '11, once Assistant Director of Research in the Oakland City
Public school system. Since 1938 he has been the Assistant Director of
the State of California Department of Education in Sacremento, Cali-fornia;
Alex Rexion, '17, who has been instructor of history and political
science at W,estminister College, Salt Lake City, Utah and now associate
professor and head of the Coordination Department at Fenn College,
Sometimes we might do well to
look at ourselves from a distance.
We need to step out of the current
of daily affairs in order to view
our whole course in the stream of
life. The most marvelous way of
achieving this spiritual objectivity
is by looking at ourselves through
the eyes of God—learning to know
ourselves "as we are known". (I
Cor. 13:12) Thus Jesus went about
among men revealing their souls to
the eyes of their hearts. And to-day,
we can never really know our-selves
until we have known God.
We all need the experience of St.
Augustine, "Because thou wert
strayed as a vagabond from thine
own heart, so He, who is every-where,
laid hold on thee, and re-called
thee to thine own inward
self."
Another way of viewing our spi-ritual
lives from a distance, is by
looking through the eyes of others.
We would do well to look at our
spiritual stature from the viewpoint
of fellow-students. And today, we
might gain spiritual insight by an-ticipating
how our class-mates out
on the battle-fronts of the world
feel about our spiritual progress.
At Homecoming time, hundreds of
hearts—some from foxholes in the
tropics of New Guinea, some from
the mountain passes of Italy, some
from the bombers streaking thru
the sky over Germany—are turn-ing
toward Bethel. They know the
spiritual fires are still aglow here-in
the place of God. Do they won-der
if we are really being warmed?
Do they wonder if we are fanning
the flame? Do they question whe-ther
the opportunity we have is
slipping thru our fingers, while
they fight fever, climate, and a
diabolical enemy to preserve that
opportunity? The answer is really
not theirs to give—it is ours to
achieve: In the words of Thomas
A Kempis, "Every day we ought to
renew our purpose and stir our-selves
to fervour as though we _had
been first converted and say, 'Help
me, Lord God, in my good purpose
and in thy service and grant me
this day to begin perfectly; for
naught it is that I have done unto
this time!"
Chapel Nuggets
10/27/43—Miss Stockton
"Dare to be strong and very
courageous."
10/29/43—Prof. Stjernstrom
"If we allow Him to lead us, He
will be a kind shepherd, one who
will not fail."
Cleveland, Ohio; Gustaf W. Hammar, '15, professor and head of the
Physics Department, University of Idaho.
These are but a few of a long and distinguished list of names of
which we are justly proud.
Let us as Bethel students look to their achievements and receive
hope and inspiration. As they have been lead by Him into the work
for which they were best fitted, so we who perhaps are bewildered and
uncertain as to how we should use our lives, can be certain of the same
Guidance.
"25 tin are
Imam"
by Stanley Paulson
Poe Had His Troubles '1 .00 I
It has long been my opinion that Poe was a very average student, ;
and I base my assumption on several of his brilliant writings.
Let us start with the best of his poems, "The Raven."
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded nearly napping."—etc.
What, I ask, could be more expressive of the evening before a mid-semester
in history? One could hardly draw any other conclusion than
that Poe once experienced these horrible trials.
Again in "Ulalume" he aptly expresses the same thought.
"It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most unmemorial year."
Thus we find repeated references to the night before the test.
It is not hard to find his feelings on the test day. Let us take from
"The Bells" a line to indicate his inner thoughts when the eleven-twenty
rings.
"Hear the loud alarum bells—
Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now their turbulency tells!—
What a horror they outpour."
The reason for his lack of knowledge is very plain when one reads
"Helen".
"Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean books of yore,"—etc.
The old boy was love-sick—too love-sick to study.
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"Lost, yesterday, somewhere be-tween
sunrise and sunset, two gol-den
hours, each set with sixty
diamond minutes. No reward is
offered for they are gone forever."
As Horace Mann has implied in
these words, time—every minute
of it—is precious. How often, as
we think back on the day that has
past, do we wish that we hadn't
wasted so much of our time. But
then as we think again we recall
the numerous incidents that helped
take up that time, we wonder if
these happenings (which are most-ly
spontaneous) aren't a part of
our education-
Bi II Peterson put his arm thru a
window recently and received a
good-sized gash in the elbow. As
he rushed to the wash-room telling
what had happened, the faces of
the dorm fellows brightened up.
"Oh, boy." said one, "here's a good
chance to practice my First Aid."
Everyone was practicing some-thing
on him. When we saw the
size of the cut, we all agreed that
clamps should be put in. "Get a
stapler, that'll do the trick," some-one
shouted, but Dana thought this
too inhumane and took pity on poor
Bill. We are glad to announce
that Bill survived the ordeal—
Quotation from a letter by a Sem-inary
student written to his girl—
don't ask me how I got it but it's
too good to keep to myself. I'll
leave off the preliminaries. "As I
was thinking about you today,—,a
fly came through the window and
flew around the room. He must
have known how lonesome I was
because he came and settled on my
hand to keep me company"—
Seeing that this is Homecoming
time, let's look back a little bit.
Remember when the water was
falling from the Sem Dorm win-dows
last year? How Bob Disch-inger,
in a second story window,
would soak every one coming out
of the door below? One of the fel-lows
convinced "Disch" that if he
would lean way out he could thi-ow
the pail of water better. As he did
this someone was up on the roof
waiting with another pail. Result?
"Disch" looked as if he had been
out in a rain storm.
But this didn't stop "Disch". He
was having too much fun getting
everybody wet. Finally Gene John-son
came walking out and as the
others, he got a pail full. However
the joke was on Dischinger this
time. Gene Johnson had gotten in-to
"Disch's room and put on his
best suit—
Did you know that Dana Larson
once won a second prize-in a baby
beauty contest?—
I'd better cut this off now.
Here's hoping everyone has a swell
time at Homecoming!
Sem Snatches by Harold Carlson
NEWSETTES
Through the Eyes of a Seminary Philosopher .. .
It's Traditional Here ! !
I just came out of a theology
test, and the way my head is ach-ing
and pounding, I realize that
the past hour of mental gymnas-tics
has given me a severe case of
"Charley horse" of the thought
processes.
However, the muscular fatigue
isn't so bad we can't comprehend
the quite evident truth that any
institution without a rich cultural
background of traditions is doomed
to an early death. Any institution
so unfortunate as to be unadorned
and unadvertised by a wealthy her-itage
of traditions is void of all
life and color.
Without traditions what anima-tion
of spirit, limb, and skull would
there be at Bethel? How else can
we explain the financial and schol-astic
strivings of our school? In
spite of the fact that Wyman
Malmsten is a good man, what suc-cess
would he have had with dor-mitory
construction. if Bethel tra-ditions
didn't stir the grad's mem-ory,
put a sparkle in his eye, a
warm feeling in his heart, and a
hole in his pocket?
Without traditions what would
our school faculty be like? Why,
Bethel would become a musty cen-ter
of intellectuosity, a staid old
center of learning. Our faculty and
students would constitute a steady
colorless parade of bowlegs, knock
Icnees, bald heads, thick lenses,
winding endlessly from office to
classroom, to library, to desk.
THE COFFEE SHOPPE would
have to receive last rites. PROF.
NORSTROM would leave all jokes
out of his lectures—calamity!
If Bethel lost her traditions,
OUR FEMALE STUDENT BODY
would decline, and the Conference
would lack preachers' wives. With-out
Bethel's traditions our preach-ers
would attend conferences and
conventions with nothing more vi-talizing
to discuss than first truths,
knowledge, textual criticism, Tub-inger
and Wellhauser theories of
criticsm, inspiration, original sin,
and modernists. Without tradi-tions
Bethel would lose her useful-ness
and cease to exist.
Now I know this will hurt, but
let's think just once again. Sup-pose
the fellows no longer made
(LAST MINUTE ARRANGE-MENTS
FOR DATES, but being
considerate and thoughtful called
a month in advance to iron out de-tails.
Why, girls, such a humdrum
experience of life void of all ele-ments
of expectancy and surprise.
And, fellows, suppose in the mean-time
a vivacious blond accidental-ly
flitted across your vision. In
planning dates ahead of time, you'll
find life an experience of one deep
rut after another.
Consider the MALE CHORUS.
It seems to me Webster said, "that
is traditional which is handed
down." What fellow can leave the
flats and sharps of Bethel feeling
like a man without having ex-perienced
that which from Chorus
to Chorus has been handed down—
with feeling and emphasis.
When it comes to DORMITORY
LIFE, how the dull eyes shine, how
the sunken chests are reclaimed
and filled with pride, how the
tongues wag as conference preach-ers
gather and relate their tales
of bath tub parties. Greek, Heb-rew,
and Biblical Intro are all well
and good, but who can call himself
prepared for Swedish Baptists who
has not been dragged through the
course of "all out for a bath tub
party?
There will always be a Bethel
because she is rich in traditions.
She truly has a great heritage. Of
course, if Bethel were now without
traditions, I would now be without
incompletes—or perhaps the con-verse
unhappy thought—Bethel
would now be without me. But
then, that is mere sophistry.
? GUESS WHO
He's one of those newly-weds
in the middleman class of the
Seminary. He came from Emer-ald
Ave. Church in Chicago to
Bethel, where he was President
of his freshman class. With
Dale Bjork, he won second
place in the Red River Valley
Debate Tournament in his col-lege
days. His seminary pals
will tell you he's the most Jew-ish
looking person in the whole
school, but those black eyes and
that curly hair are the envy of
many of the girls.
He's a thinker and a leader
and you've seen a lot of him
this Homecoming week.
Answer—Bob Dischinger
Girls! Your last chance of the
year to get your man. It's the
Sadie Hawkins party on Nov. 12.
Jane says she has her man—have
you got yours?
At last we've found one good
thing that has come out of mid-terms.
The dorms are oh-so-quiet
(for a pleasant change).
Lloyd Nordstrom has acquired a
new name for himself. He was the
"Sweetheart of the Convention".
(Now, isn't that nice?)
"The only time I have dates,
now, is in the salad," said a Dorm
girl at Sunday dinner.
This fall weather does some-thing
to you, doesn't it? Wouldn't
a stroll in Como Park, a camp fire,
a horse-back ride, or just some day-dreaming
do a lot more for you
right now, than that mid-term
test? Ah, yes.
Then there was the moron that
fell through a screen door and
strained himself.
Let's get into the spirit of Home-coming.
It's a festive time at Beth-el.
Your participation in the fun
will make it one of the happiest
times of the year. We'll see you
at the banquet.
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Varsity vs. Alumni
in Annual Game
Smarting under last year's de-feat
the Alumni will attempt to
roll back the Varsity, Friday even-ing,
9:00 P. M., at the Annual
Homecoming basketball game.
With a star-studded team the
Alumni will be composed of Gene
Nyman, at the center position al-ternating
with Gordon Johnson.
Stan Johnson and Bill Adam, for-mer
coach of Bethel, will take over
forward berths ; Roland Gustafson
and Wilbur Sorely will play at
guard positions. Judging from the
players, the Alumni stand out as
a potent threat to the Varsity.
Captain Robert Otto will lead the
Varsity on at the center position
with Maurice Lundh as alternate.
The forwards are Willis Wessman,
Robert Hails, and Gordon Thomp-son:
Gene Johnson, Bob Bergerud,
and Bob Nostrom will play as
guards.
The varsity are out to repeat
their winning streak, and appear
to be undaunted in spite of their
formidable opponents.
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Major
Bergstrom
of '19
Honorable is the name of Bethel
Our own Christ-centered school.
Many have stepped from its noble portals,
Each one to be used as God's tool.
Can we but strive on to the goal set before us,
Our lives here shall not be in vain.
May we seek to serve humbly our Saviour and Master,
In nothing our own praise to gain.
Never doubting, but faithful, our motto hold fast,
God first, others second, self last.
THE BETHEL
CLARION
Vol. XXIII — No. 3 November 4, 1943
//Hearths Aglowu Is Theme of Banquet
Preview Bergfalk Becomes Army Chaplain to Speak
of 'Duluth
Conference
On Friday evening, October 22,
the opening service of the 36th An-nual
Convention of the Minnesota'
Swedish Baptist Y.P.U. was held
in the Bethel Baptist Church of
Duluth, hostess of the convention.
"Alert for Christ" was the motto,
taken from I Peter 3:15.
Rev. Wilbur Sorley, of Minne-apolis,
gave the opening address,
"Alert with the Word". Don Olson,
president of the State Y.P. presided
over the meeting.
The Saturday program began
with morning devotions at 9:30
led by Bill Adam. At ten o'clock
Don Olson took over, and a busi-ness
meeting was held. Because
of the abundance of money in the
treasury, Rev. Marvin Samuelson,
now pastor of the Bethel church
and former executive secretary for
the state convention, presented a
need at Jesse Lake, Minn., which
he asked the Young People to un-dertake.
It was agreed to send
$600„a year to help support a man
in this field. The business meet-ing
was closed with a prayer ses-sion
for the next year's work.
The banquet on Saturday even-ing
was held in the Medical Arts
Building banquet hall. TA crowd
was beyond expectations, 450 at-tending.
The fifteen Bethel men
who were supported by the Young
People this summer while out prea-ching
and teaching Bible schools
were the speakers for the evening.
These included: Dale ,Bjork, Lloyd
Nordstrom, Melvin Swanson, Elv-ing
Anderson, Howard Olson, Her-bert
McDonald, Wesley Lindblom,
Robert Paulson, Dana Larson, and
Robert Bergerud. Unable to attend
and speak were: John Bergeson,
Lawrence Nydeggar, Don Johnson,
Cecil Lindblom, and Irwin Bjel-land.
Music and a movie of this
year's summer assembly at Lake
Geneva finished the program.
Sunday School was in charge of
the local church. Morning worship
included Rev. Vern Wessman, of
Blomkest, speaking on the subject,
"Alert to the Leading of Word."
After the service all were invited
to homes of the members of the
Bethel church and other local chur-ches.
At 2:15 P. M. the Rally Service
Mission Secretary
At the Minnesota Baptist Con-ference
in the First Swedish Bap-tist
Church of Minneapolis, held
September, 7-12, Rev. Albert Berg-falk
was elected to take over the
work as general executive mission
secretary for the conference. This
position in the conference has been
held during the last few years Ty
Rev. Marvin Samuelson who is now
the pastor of the Bethel Church in
Duluth.
Rev. Bergfalk's work will be to
supervise the work in all of the
churches of the Minnesota Baptist
Conference, but especially those
churches that are receiving some
form of help from the conference.
It is expected that he will take
over this work about December 1,
when he returns from the Pacific
coast where he has been working
for the Mission Committee of the
General Conference. He has been
trying to coordinate the Gospel
work in army, navy, marine, and
ordinance camps.
In 1927, Albert Bergfalk came to
Bethel from the East Rock Creek
Church, here in Minnesota. He
graduated from the Seminary in
1932. Since 1931, or for about
twelve years, he has been pastor
of the Opstead, Minnesota, Church.
New Coach
Is Luther Gronseth
"It" has finally come. The "It"
in this case is Bethel's new coach.
Many have been wondering who,
what, and when about him, but
now the mystery is solved.
Luther Gronseth, Augsburg Col-lege,
'42, is the Bethel coach for
1943-44. Last year he coached at
Minnehaha Academy. Also a min-isterial
student, he is a middle-man
at the Augsburg Seminary.
Gym classes under his supervi-sion
started Monday, Nov. 1.
began. Bill Adam, former Bethel
coach, led the service. Rev. Mar-vin
Samuelson took charge of the
installation of the officers for 1944,
which included three Bethel stu-dents:
Dale Bjork, second vice
president; Violet Carlson and Jack
Bergeson, members of the mission-ary
committee. Rev. Edward Nel-son
of St. Paul closed the meeting
and the Conference with the mes-sage,
"Alert to the Hope".
With smiling "faithes," open "armths" and "hearths" aglow we ex-tend
the warmest welcome to visiting alumni and friends to another
homeoming. Though the student body is smaller, our hearts will have
a larger place for you this year. The theme is planned to emphasize the
spirit of the Bethel campus. Enjoy the program, reunion, and fellowship
with–the students, and all will be well satisfied.
Robert Dischinger,
President of the Student Council
The 1943 annual Homecoming celebrations will begin with a camp
fire outing, Thursday evening, 7:30 at Como Park. Friday aftternoon,
open house will be held in the Men's and Women's Dormitories on the
campus. Sports activities, including a milking contest, greased pig con-ttest,
and girls' tug of war are scheduled for Friday at 3 p. m.
Friday, at 6:30, is the time for
the climax of the activities, the
Homecoming banquet. Main speak-er
of the program will be Major
Carl Bergstrom, chaplain in the U.
S. Army, now stationed at Fort
Knox, Tennessee. Major Bergstrom
was graduated from Bethel Sem-inary
in 1919, and at the time he
was called into the army was
minister at the Swedish Baptist
Church of Houston, Minnesota.
Bethel Holds
Music Missionary
Invocation Dr. K. J. Karlson
Choruses Dave Danielson Emphasis Week
Male Quartette
Marimba Solo Priscilla Grebe
Vocal solo .... Mr. Nels Stjernstrom
Male Quartette
Male Chorus
Marimba solo Priscilla Grebe
"Hearths Aglow"
Major C. J. Bergstrom
Benediction Mr. C. E. Carlson
As in the past, arrangements for
the banquet have been in charge
of the Student Council, with Robert
Dischinger /as president. Commit-tee
chairmen are: general commit-tee,
Dale Bjork; decorations, Hazel
Nelson; souvenirs, Janet Rye; ban-quet,
Harold McClure: publicity,
Robert Bergerud; tickets, Richard
Sleiter.
Following the banquet will be a
basket ball game between the Var-sity
and Alumni.
CALENDAR
Nov. 9 Convocation
"Meat and Romance"
Nov. 11 B. W. A.
Nov. 14 • Bethel Day at
Bethel Church
The banquet program is as fol-lows:
Missionary Emphasis Week came
to a close today. The past week,
November first to fifth, has been
set aside as a week when Bethel
would especially remember those
who have given their life to full-time
service on the foreign field.
Monday was dedicated to prayer
for the missionaries who are still
laboring on the foreign field, even
though the war has separated them
even farther from their friends,
and they themselves may be in
danger.
Chapel speaker on Tuesday was
Miss Rhoda Lundstrom from the
Bethel Neighborhood Center, Kan-sas
City, Kansas. Special music
was provided by the male quartet.
Gustav Sword, returned mission-ary
from Burma, was the speaker
on Wednesday, with music furnish-ed
by the chapel choir.
Thursday's speaker was Mrs.
John Selander from Assam. The
girls' tiro provided the music.
About the blessings of Mission-ary
week, one student has said,
"Altogether, this week has been
very successful in bringing td mind
the many individuals who have giv-en
up the securities that we know,
to proclaim the Gospel of Christ.
OUQ INC UIQING
PEPO2T020
by Ruth Elaine Anderson
Question: WOULD YOU LIKE
TO BE AN ALUMNUS AND
WHY?
Shirley Anderson: "Oh never!"
Leroy Gardner: "No, I wouldn't
but I'm afraid I'll be one without
choice."
Weston Sequist: "It would be
kind of fun to gloat over the under-graduates."
Betty Nyman: "I'd be all thru
with classes, but it would be nice
to be honored at a banquet, instead
of serving."
Earl Trude: "I'd like to be one
because—because."
Peggy Applequist: "I won't
quote myself."
Grace Bylund: "If I were an
alumnus—I'd be able to do more
for Christ."
Lorene Jansson: "Oh sure! I'd
like to be an alumnus, I wouldn't
have to wait four years then."
Irene Benson: "Then I know I'd
have passed chemistry."
Kay Shimatsu: "To me being a
student means more than coming
back as an alumnus to the ban-quet."
Phyllis Anderson: "If I were an
alumnus all my worries would be
over."
Lucille Collins: "Yes, I'd like to
be an alumnus and all done so
that I would know what I was go-ing
to do."
Bob Bergerud: "Yoh, I guess I
would. I'd like to have a church—
I can't do a decent job going to
school at the same time.
Ruth Rask: "Don't ask me."
Lloyd Nordstrom: "Yes, I'd like
an alufilmus because I'll then have
completed my work in a great
school of Bethel."
Wilbur Ericson: "No, no chance
for fooling around."
Howie Olson: "No, no chance to
get a friend."
Miriam Nelson: "Sure, because
I'd feel I had completed a worth-while
cause here at school and
would be better not only for Christ
but dependent upon myself."
President Wingblade: "The
greatest honor that can come to
anyone is to be an alumnus of Be-thel.
But it is a heritage to live
up to. Bethel is a small school but
a great school—you know."
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The Pride of Our Alma Mater
"Hearths Aglow"—there is no phrase more descriptive of our feel-ings
at this Homecoming time. Our "Hearths" are "Aglow" with welcome
and joy for those that can be with us; our "Hearts" are "Aglow" in
remembrance of those who are unable to attend.
One has only to turn over the pages of our alumni records and read
the many names and achievements written there to catch this glowing
spirit of Homecoming. And it is well, I believe, to do so, to renew our
acquaintance with those honored names, for in knowing their lives we
may learn many lessons.
As missionaries, pastors, writers, and not only in definite Christian
work, but in the more secular fields of service of doctors, and teachers,
we find them, each serving the Lord and contributing to the establishing
of His Kingdom in a different way. Let us explore their fields of en-deavor.
In missionary work we might mention Dr. Ola Hanson, Seminary
graduate of '87, missionary to Burma, receiving the Kaisar-em-Hind Med-al
from the Emporer of India in 1920; Gustaf Sword of '14, who until
recently was stationed in Kutkai, managing the Kachin Bible Schools;
Bengt I. Anderson, '24, who was in full responsibility for evangelistic,
educational, and medical work in the North Assam section; Carl Eric
Fryckenberg, '29, in station evangelistic work at Atmakur, Nalgonda, and
Vinukonda, India.
Among the alumni serving as pastors are: Linus Johnson, graduate
of '20, pastor at Temple Baptist Church, Portland Oregon; David Gustaf-son,
'11, who at one time taught at the Seminary of the University of
Chicago, later was a professor at the Carnegie Institute of Technology,
and is now serving as pastor of the Marion Baptist Church of Aurora,
Illinois. Those ministers of the Twin Cities which Bethel claims as her
own are: Anton Sjolund, '18, of the First Swedish Baptist church of
Minneapolis; Martin Erikson, '29, Payne Avenue Baptist Church; Eric
Anderson, '12, Central Baptist Church; J. G. Johnson, '19, Elim Baptist
Church; Vaclav Votja, '40, Slovak Baptist Church of Minneapolis; Hugo
Bersell, '24, Prospect Park Baptist Church; Wilbur Sorely, '39, Minnehaha
Baptist Church.
In the field of Christian Workers and writers are found the follow-ing:
the oldest living graduate of Bethel Academy, Rev. L. J. Ahlstrom
of '79, writer and historian of Swedish Baptist history; Jonas Oscar
Backlund, '02, at one time professor at Bethel Academy, now editor of
the Standard; Ragnar Andreas Arlander, Mission Secretary of the Swe-dish
Baptist General Conference; Gustave Arvid Hagstrom, '92, president
Emeritis of Bethel Institute; Johan Eric Klingberg, '98, founder of the
Children's Home in New Britain, Conn.
Bethel men who have entered the field of medicine are: Dr. Jonas
Ahlquist, '11, missionary doctor in Burma; Dr. Earl Carlson, '15, of the
Nerological Institute of New York and author of a book on spastic
paralysis.
Some of those who are in the teaching profession include: Joel A.
Burkman, '11, once Assistant Director of Research in the Oakland City
Public school system. Since 1938 he has been the Assistant Director of
the State of California Department of Education in Sacremento, Cali-fornia;
Alex Rexion, '17, who has been instructor of history and political
science at W,estminister College, Salt Lake City, Utah and now associate
professor and head of the Coordination Department at Fenn College,
Sometimes we might do well to
look at ourselves from a distance.
We need to step out of the current
of daily affairs in order to view
our whole course in the stream of
life. The most marvelous way of
achieving this spiritual objectivity
is by looking at ourselves through
the eyes of God—learning to know
ourselves "as we are known". (I
Cor. 13:12) Thus Jesus went about
among men revealing their souls to
the eyes of their hearts. And to-day,
we can never really know our-selves
until we have known God.
We all need the experience of St.
Augustine, "Because thou wert
strayed as a vagabond from thine
own heart, so He, who is every-where,
laid hold on thee, and re-called
thee to thine own inward
self."
Another way of viewing our spi-ritual
lives from a distance, is by
looking through the eyes of others.
We would do well to look at our
spiritual stature from the viewpoint
of fellow-students. And today, we
might gain spiritual insight by an-ticipating
how our class-mates out
on the battle-fronts of the world
feel about our spiritual progress.
At Homecoming time, hundreds of
hearts—some from foxholes in the
tropics of New Guinea, some from
the mountain passes of Italy, some
from the bombers streaking thru
the sky over Germany—are turn-ing
toward Bethel. They know the
spiritual fires are still aglow here-in
the place of God. Do they won-der
if we are really being warmed?
Do they wonder if we are fanning
the flame? Do they question whe-ther
the opportunity we have is
slipping thru our fingers, while
they fight fever, climate, and a
diabolical enemy to preserve that
opportunity? The answer is really
not theirs to give—it is ours to
achieve: In the words of Thomas
A Kempis, "Every day we ought to
renew our purpose and stir our-selves
to fervour as though we _had
been first converted and say, 'Help
me, Lord God, in my good purpose
and in thy service and grant me
this day to begin perfectly; for
naught it is that I have done unto
this time!"
Chapel Nuggets
10/27/43—Miss Stockton
"Dare to be strong and very
courageous."
10/29/43—Prof. Stjernstrom
"If we allow Him to lead us, He
will be a kind shepherd, one who
will not fail."
Cleveland, Ohio; Gustaf W. Hammar, '15, professor and head of the
Physics Department, University of Idaho.
These are but a few of a long and distinguished list of names of
which we are justly proud.
Let us as Bethel students look to their achievements and receive
hope and inspiration. As they have been lead by Him into the work
for which they were best fitted, so we who perhaps are bewildered and
uncertain as to how we should use our lives, can be certain of the same
Guidance.
"25 tin are
Imam"
by Stanley Paulson
Poe Had His Troubles '1 .00 I
It has long been my opinion that Poe was a very average student, ;
and I base my assumption on several of his brilliant writings.
Let us start with the best of his poems, "The Raven."
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded nearly napping."—etc.
What, I ask, could be more expressive of the evening before a mid-semester
in history? One could hardly draw any other conclusion than
that Poe once experienced these horrible trials.
Again in "Ulalume" he aptly expresses the same thought.
"It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most unmemorial year."
Thus we find repeated references to the night before the test.
It is not hard to find his feelings on the test day. Let us take from
"The Bells" a line to indicate his inner thoughts when the eleven-twenty
rings.
"Hear the loud alarum bells—
Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now their turbulency tells!—
What a horror they outpour."
The reason for his lack of knowledge is very plain when one reads
"Helen".
"Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean books of yore,"—etc.
The old boy was love-sick—too love-sick to study.
THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
"Lost, yesterday, somewhere be-tween
sunrise and sunset, two gol-den
hours, each set with sixty
diamond minutes. No reward is
offered for they are gone forever."
As Horace Mann has implied in
these words, time—every minute
of it—is precious. How often, as
we think back on the day that has
past, do we wish that we hadn't
wasted so much of our time. But
then as we think again we recall
the numerous incidents that helped
take up that time, we wonder if
these happenings (which are most-ly
spontaneous) aren't a part of
our education-
Bi II Peterson put his arm thru a
window recently and received a
good-sized gash in the elbow. As
he rushed to the wash-room telling
what had happened, the faces of
the dorm fellows brightened up.
"Oh, boy." said one, "here's a good
chance to practice my First Aid."
Everyone was practicing some-thing
on him. When we saw the
size of the cut, we all agreed that
clamps should be put in. "Get a
stapler, that'll do the trick," some-one
shouted, but Dana thought this
too inhumane and took pity on poor
Bill. We are glad to announce
that Bill survived the ordeal—
Quotation from a letter by a Sem-inary
student written to his girl—
don't ask me how I got it but it's
too good to keep to myself. I'll
leave off the preliminaries. "As I
was thinking about you today,—,a
fly came through the window and
flew around the room. He must
have known how lonesome I was
because he came and settled on my
hand to keep me company"—
Seeing that this is Homecoming
time, let's look back a little bit.
Remember when the water was
falling from the Sem Dorm win-dows
last year? How Bob Disch-inger,
in a second story window,
would soak every one coming out
of the door below? One of the fel-lows
convinced "Disch" that if he
would lean way out he could thi-ow
the pail of water better. As he did
this someone was up on the roof
waiting with another pail. Result?
"Disch" looked as if he had been
out in a rain storm.
But this didn't stop "Disch". He
was having too much fun getting
everybody wet. Finally Gene John-son
came walking out and as the
others, he got a pail full. However
the joke was on Dischinger this
time. Gene Johnson had gotten in-to
"Disch's room and put on his
best suit—
Did you know that Dana Larson
once won a second prize-in a baby
beauty contest?—
I'd better cut this off now.
Here's hoping everyone has a swell
time at Homecoming!
Sem Snatches by Harold Carlson
NEWSETTES
Through the Eyes of a Seminary Philosopher .. .
It's Traditional Here ! !
I just came out of a theology
test, and the way my head is ach-ing
and pounding, I realize that
the past hour of mental gymnas-tics
has given me a severe case of
"Charley horse" of the thought
processes.
However, the muscular fatigue
isn't so bad we can't comprehend
the quite evident truth that any
institution without a rich cultural
background of traditions is doomed
to an early death. Any institution
so unfortunate as to be unadorned
and unadvertised by a wealthy her-itage
of traditions is void of all
life and color.
Without traditions what anima-tion
of spirit, limb, and skull would
there be at Bethel? How else can
we explain the financial and schol-astic
strivings of our school? In
spite of the fact that Wyman
Malmsten is a good man, what suc-cess
would he have had with dor-mitory
construction. if Bethel tra-ditions
didn't stir the grad's mem-ory,
put a sparkle in his eye, a
warm feeling in his heart, and a
hole in his pocket?
Without traditions what would
our school faculty be like? Why,
Bethel would become a musty cen-ter
of intellectuosity, a staid old
center of learning. Our faculty and
students would constitute a steady
colorless parade of bowlegs, knock
Icnees, bald heads, thick lenses,
winding endlessly from office to
classroom, to library, to desk.
THE COFFEE SHOPPE would
have to receive last rites. PROF.
NORSTROM would leave all jokes
out of his lectures—calamity!
If Bethel lost her traditions,
OUR FEMALE STUDENT BODY
would decline, and the Conference
would lack preachers' wives. With-out
Bethel's traditions our preach-ers
would attend conferences and
conventions with nothing more vi-talizing
to discuss than first truths,
knowledge, textual criticism, Tub-inger
and Wellhauser theories of
criticsm, inspiration, original sin,
and modernists. Without tradi-tions
Bethel would lose her useful-ness
and cease to exist.
Now I know this will hurt, but
let's think just once again. Sup-pose
the fellows no longer made
(LAST MINUTE ARRANGE-MENTS
FOR DATES, but being
considerate and thoughtful called
a month in advance to iron out de-tails.
Why, girls, such a humdrum
experience of life void of all ele-ments
of expectancy and surprise.
And, fellows, suppose in the mean-time
a vivacious blond accidental-ly
flitted across your vision. In
planning dates ahead of time, you'll
find life an experience of one deep
rut after another.
Consider the MALE CHORUS.
It seems to me Webster said, "that
is traditional which is handed
down." What fellow can leave the
flats and sharps of Bethel feeling
like a man without having ex-perienced
that which from Chorus
to Chorus has been handed down—
with feeling and emphasis.
When it comes to DORMITORY
LIFE, how the dull eyes shine, how
the sunken chests are reclaimed
and filled with pride, how the
tongues wag as conference preach-ers
gather and relate their tales
of bath tub parties. Greek, Heb-rew,
and Biblical Intro are all well
and good, but who can call himself
prepared for Swedish Baptists who
has not been dragged through the
course of "all out for a bath tub
party?
There will always be a Bethel
because she is rich in traditions.
She truly has a great heritage. Of
course, if Bethel were now without
traditions, I would now be without
incompletes—or perhaps the con-verse
unhappy thought—Bethel
would now be without me. But
then, that is mere sophistry.
? GUESS WHO
He's one of those newly-weds
in the middleman class of the
Seminary. He came from Emer-ald
Ave. Church in Chicago to
Bethel, where he was President
of his freshman class. With
Dale Bjork, he won second
place in the Red River Valley
Debate Tournament in his col-lege
days. His seminary pals
will tell you he's the most Jew-ish
looking person in the whole
school, but those black eyes and
that curly hair are the envy of
many of the girls.
He's a thinker and a leader
and you've seen a lot of him
this Homecoming week.
Answer—Bob Dischinger
Girls! Your last chance of the
year to get your man. It's the
Sadie Hawkins party on Nov. 12.
Jane says she has her man—have
you got yours?
At last we've found one good
thing that has come out of mid-terms.
The dorms are oh-so-quiet
(for a pleasant change).
Lloyd Nordstrom has acquired a
new name for himself. He was the
"Sweetheart of the Convention".
(Now, isn't that nice?)
"The only time I have dates,
now, is in the salad," said a Dorm
girl at Sunday dinner.
This fall weather does some-thing
to you, doesn't it? Wouldn't
a stroll in Como Park, a camp fire,
a horse-back ride, or just some day-dreaming
do a lot more for you
right now, than that mid-term
test? Ah, yes.
Then there was the moron that
fell through a screen door and
strained himself.
Let's get into the spirit of Home-coming.
It's a festive time at Beth-el.
Your participation in the fun
will make it one of the happiest
times of the year. We'll see you
at the banquet.
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BETHEL BOOKSTORE &
COFFEE SHOP
—Where Students and
Faculty Meet Around
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Stationery—Drugs—Notions
Gifts—Candy—Cosmetics
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Como and Snelling
Even Sampson got his
hair cut. Why not you?
•
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BARBER SHOP
1182 Snelling
near Como
Pittsburgh Coal
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•
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Cedar 1851
AFTER THE GAME
Catch a Snack at
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Sandwich Shop
Como at Snelling
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Page 4 THE BETHEL CLARION
Varsity vs. Alumni
in Annual Game
Smarting under last year's de-feat
the Alumni will attempt to
roll back the Varsity, Friday even-ing,
9:00 P. M., at the Annual
Homecoming basketball game.
With a star-studded team the
Alumni will be composed of Gene
Nyman, at the center position al-ternating
with Gordon Johnson.
Stan Johnson and Bill Adam, for-mer
coach of Bethel, will take over
forward berths ; Roland Gustafson
and Wilbur Sorely will play at
guard positions. Judging from the
players, the Alumni stand out as
a potent threat to the Varsity.
Captain Robert Otto will lead the
Varsity on at the center position
with Maurice Lundh as alternate.
The forwards are Willis Wessman,
Robert Hails, and Gordon Thomp-son:
Gene Johnson, Bob Bergerud,
and Bob Nostrom will play as
guards.
The varsity are out to repeat
their winning streak, and appear
to be undaunted in spite of their
formidable opponents.
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The Bethel grid squad emerged
victorious over an equally tough
St. Paul Bible Institute team, 6-0,
in a football game last Friday af-ternoon,
October 22, on the Bethel
field. The lone score came on a
completed pass in the last seconds
of the game.
Paced by Willis Wessman, the
Bethel team was composed of such
stalwarts as Roland Gustafson,
Wilbur Ericson, Conwell Anderson,
Elwood Anderson, Harris Young-quist,
Stamford Widen, Maurice
Lundh, and Vernie Stoneberg.
In the waning seconds of the last
half an Institute pass was inter-cepted
by Anderson deep in their
territory. Without going into a
huddle the ball was snapped and
Gustafson threw the ball into the
ready arms of Wessman who leap-ed
high into the air and snagged
the pass for the score.
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Phone MI. 6491
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The Stork Called
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3—GORDON THOMPSON
4—ADELINE FRANZ
6—MARG APPLEQUIST
11—KAY SH I MATSU
12—MAXINE OLSON
16—MARGARET JOHNSON
17—MISS PLATTS
18—EUNICE WOOD
18—LOIS RAMETZ
21—GEORGE JOHNSON
21—HELEN SODER
24—BETTY OLSON
25—DOROTHY DAHLMAN
25—LEROY GARDNER
26—BEN SHERMAN
29—MARIE GREEN
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SNELLING and BREDA
Special Meetings
by a
SPECIALIST
in Child Delinquency Problems
Dr. Robert Divine
Every Sunday Night During November
Sunday School 9 . 30 A. M.
Morning Service 10:45 A. M.
B. Y. P. U 6.00 P. M.
Evening Service 7 . 30 P. M.
Minnehaha Baptist Church
Minneapolis